cmeyer@sacbee.com (Carla Meyer)

Ira Glass of public radio's "This American Life" will get a grilling by author Daniel Handler of "Lemony Snicket" fame.Interviewing Ira Glass is like listening to him on the radio, only better. Glass' voice on the phone from his New York of...

The Black Keys are to perform on the Silverado Stage on May 10, the festival's second day.NAPA – Music-loving entrepreneurs Gabe Meyers and Bob Vogt saw an opening: a spot on the calendar in between April's Coachella and Stagecoach music fes...

Crystal Bowersox is playing at Harlow's.She was the one with the dreadlocks, the baby son and the colorful past as a busker at Chicago train stations. Crystal Bowersox, appearing tonight at Harlow's in Sacramento, made a strong impression dur...

Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely. Joe Ely, 66, came up in Lubbock, Texas, hung out with the Clash in London and rarely let an experience sit without writing about it. Ely's story-songs about trains, waitresses and wandering reflect 40-plus ye...

The Hangar's owner, John Baccigaluppi, hangs in the control room. He's splitting the operation between the a Marin site and another Sacramento location.It's freezing in the winter, blazing hot in summer. The linoleum is stained and cracked. There...

Alabama Shakes consists of Heath Fogg, left, Zac Cockrell, Brittany Howard and Steve Johnson.There are two kinds of people: Those who have yet to see Brittany Howard sing, and the converted. The 24-year-old Alabama Shakes frontwoman seizes a...

The Hangar, the legendary Sacramento studio housed in large a warehouse space near the river, will close its doors after 23 years. Owner John Baccigaluppi, whose 15th Street space has served Sacramento acts from Far and Deftones to Sister Crayon an...

Grammy winner Shawn Colvin brings her often inward-facing songs to Sacramento City College on Sunday night.People who know Shawn Colvin only from her 1997 hit "Sunny Came Home" are missing out. The song is well-crafted, but very much of its t...

Singer-songwriter Anton Barbeau, a key player in Sacramento's music scene in the 1990s, is in the area to perform at Shine coffeehouse.Music surrounds Anton Barbeau, here and abroad, today and always. Barbeau, his mad-scientist mane contained...

Bambi Jones, left, Cindy Williams and Stephanie Wahl star in "Nunset Boulevard" at Three Stages in Folsom.Cindy Williams, 65, spent the 1970s in the thick of Hollywood creativity, acting for directors George Lucas ("American Graffiti") and Franci...